easiest bike to clean that you've owned

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

What bike is the easiest to clean that you've owned? There was a picture of an old ducati paso in another recent thread and it was pretty much *all* plastic. It seemed that all it took to clean was a damp cloth or a spray with some mr. sheen and a duster at most.

However, I'm not sure how much grit and grime would be sprayed up into the front section - and thus how much crud could find its way behind the plastic. Maybe none. Probably some. Possibly a lot.

And that's when I imagine a fully fared bike actually becomes much harder to clean - because if you want to do the job properly (and for the sake of this thread let's assume you do), it's a matter of unfastening all kinds of bits and pieces.

Of the very small number of bikes I've owned the easiest to clean award goes to the honda 125tde. It's small, you can get at all the engine to brush gritty shit away, you can get at the suspension linkages beneath and clean those easily. And the back mudguard is all plastic so you can just wipe underneath that if you want to go that far. If only the comstars were cast rather than assembled it would be a total gift to keep clean. But the six piece comstars are sadly a right faff compared to a cast wheel. Aside from that though it's a piece of piss compared to others I've had.
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[MarJay]

Fully faired is definitely easier than naked.

My TT600 was not a great bike in lots of ways, but it was dead easy to clean.
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[Minty]

Clean?
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[DottyDuck]

A car, bikes are a right ball ache to clean.
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[RhynoCZ]

I only clean the lights and lube the chain.
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Okay - might start fancying a vfr750 again then.
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[willis1337]

If you have free time to clean it, you have free time to ride it and are therefore not riding it enough (unless it's a harley, then the answer is "riding?").
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

So - new question. What proportion of time spent on cleaning and maintenance (yes, I see them as virtually the same thing because about half of my cleaning is chain focused) to riding? Mine is probably 20 hours riding to one cleaning/maintaining. Maybe a bit more on the cleaning side - but not much.
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[TheSmiler]

[Ste]

https://cdn.bikechatforums.com/files/227156_4504116262_8840_n.jpg

Easy bike cleaning. So easy in fact, I used that picture when selling the bike.

[Suntan Sid]

What is this "clean", you speak of?
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

This from the guy with one of the cleanest bikes I've ever seen.
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[c_dug]

I haven't cleaned my bike since September last year. I've toured Europe on it since then, and crashed it badly enough to break my arm, and left it to sit through the winter under a tree, and ridden it 1000 miles a month since it's been back on the road.

It's due it's annual clean up for MOT any time now
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[bacon]

Clean bikes are for For sale adverts!

At a push mine gets cleaned annually!

[m3-paul]

Both my fireblade and TZR are very easy to clean. They are toys so don't see daily or even weekly use most times so I always keep them clean. Takes 30 mins per bike at most.
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[Dilyan]

Define CLEAN.

I get the garden hose, drown the bastard, open a beer, watch the rust expand
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[Whosthedaddy]

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[delsol]

Don't have it any more, but a few licks with my tongue and the job was a good un, miss it though:

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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

But that's just zany!!
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